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Towards Automatic Domain Classification of Technical Terms: Estimating Domain Specificity of a Term Using the Web

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Information Retrieval Technology (AIRS 2006)

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This paper proposes a method of domain specificity estimation of technical terms using the Web. In the proposed method, it is assumed that, for a certain technical domain, a list of known technical terms of the domain is given. Technical documents of the domain are collected through the Web search engine, which are then used for generating a vector space model for the domain. The domain specificity of a target term is estimated according to the distribution of the domain of the sample pages of the target term. Experimental evaluation results show that the proposed method achieved mostly 90% precision/recall.

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  1. Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1, Tennodai, Tsukuba, 305-8573, Japan

    Takehito Utsuro

  2. Nintendo Co.,Ltd., 11-1, Hokotate-cho, Kamitoba, Minami-ku, Kyoto-shi, 601-8116, Japan

    Mitsuhiro Kida

  3. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Masatsugu Tonoike

  4. Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan

    Satoshi Sato

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  1. Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, 117543, Singapore

    Hwee Tou Ng

  2. Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, 119613, Singapore

    Mun-Kew Leong

  3. Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore

    Min-Yen Kan

  4. Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, P.O. Box, 119613, Singapore

    Donghong Ji

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Utsuro, T., Kida, M., Tonoike, M., Sato, S. (2006). Towards Automatic Domain Classification of Technical Terms: Estimating Domain Specificity of a Term Using the Web. In: Ng, H.T., Leong, MK., Kan, MY., Ji, D. (eds) Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11880592_56

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